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School Druel:
Teacher Types ............................................ ..2
The Horror Show ....................................... ..3
New Faces................................................. ..5
X-Files ...................................................... ..6 $22 @011-Dr in
Guess Who .............................................. ..7àchnul Iàruel
The Never Ending Story:
New School Collage ................................. ..8 Where IS She Now?Silvia Venegas is in El Paso missing all her
friends. She would like them to e-inail lier:
NOW For Something Completely [email protected]:
Dear Daisy ................................................ .. 10 jijjBack to Delhi ........................................... .. 10 _ _ _ _
Flash! ....................................................... .. 10 E1515 a Plcmfe “f “‘ee“*""‘°° t" fl”Vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,16“, School‘ you “rant to See niorc go tu
Movie Mistakes ....................................... .. 11 "Never Ending 5“”'>’- nAsk Adam ................................................ .. l 2
The Mighty Scribbler StaffEditors for this issue:Vict0r van Ommen
Nimesh Modak
Reporters:
Sarah Alderfer Adi Dayan
Rohan Beesla Jong-Sil Eun
gJoey Edwards Alison Jeanes
.D£1\’id FClICS Caitlan IVICC/Llrthy
Tfíshla Jam Th0m35 Mccimhy Can you guess who this middlc schoolcr' is?
Adam Perchard [Shani Pathmanathan If so, tell a member of the mightv Sari/2/2/erKirk Perschbacher_ Marko Rapljan Staff_ L iSimon Thomas Nick Wong
Joe Taylor Arush Sehgal
Kelsey Atwood Francesca Vitale
Zach Bayman Mieke Windecker iXanthe Cross Rupika Anand A’
Advisors and Technical Assistants: iMrs. Goldman and Ms. Renaud
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Teacher Types
by Simon Thomas
I now bring you your ultimate guide toteacher types, factsabout them and how to
survive them!
The rattlesnake is a hard one to handle.
Most of the day he or she just sits there and is
perfectly harmless. As the noise level rises, the
rattlesnake starts to twitch and tap his/her fingers
on the desk. This is a good time to either quiet
down or prepare yourself for what’s to come.
Suddenly, the rattlesnake will raise his/her head
and give a bellow that will make you feel as ifyou have been trapped in a hurricane while the
world explodes and you’re being run over by a
herd of stampeding buffaloes, striking terror into
teachers and students alike. The most common
result of this is the whole class turning into blobs
of jello/jelly on the floor. Then you swear never
to speak in that class again, but, of course, you’ll
forget that within the next five minutes. The
easiest way to avoid a rattlesnake is to not to
allow the noise level to rise in class, but students
are not quiet by nature. Or, you could try com-
ing to school in a pretective suit from NASA.
This does tend to stop working after a while
because your teacher will want to know why you
come to school dresed like an alien contact.
Also, rattlesnakes enjoy torturin g you
with stupid tests with stupid questions which you
don't know the stupid answers to and your
teacher will say you're stupid...which you knew
anyway.
Danger rating: 88%
The sneak will set you some work, make
sure that you are all being tortured to the highest
possible extent, then disappear. N o-one knows
where they go to. Maybe they stick to the ceiling
or become invisible. It really d0esn’t matter.
What does matter is that they always seem to
reappear just as you are about to fire a paper
pellet across the room, pass a note, or draw
something incredibly brilliant on the front of
your notebook. Suddenly, you will feel hot
breath on the back of your neck and before you
can pretend to be working, the sneak has caught
you. You will then be sent to the head teacher
(the most dangerous teacher in the school). The
best ways to avoid the sneak are:
l- work hard all the time so the sneak will have
nothing to pin you on (this is a drag)
2 - attach mirrors all over your desk so you will
get an Advanced Sneak Approach Warning
(ASAW). Be sure to cover all your blind spots.
Danger rating: 87%
Types Continued
by an experienced observer
The babe is most
commonly found in
middle school math
departments. Her
biggest danger is her
power to distract your
attention just when it's
needed most. Just gaze
a moment at this sterling
example and you'll
understand just what we
mean.
Danger rating: yes
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One ofthe best things about coming back to Horror Land after a long vacation is seeing
all the wonderful faculty again. Here they are. Say hi to your favorite, if you recognize him/her
that is.
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Welcometo AES
Nicholas
Wong is in seventh
grade and has just
moved to AES from
Bangkok. So far he
thinks this school is
tine. His favorite
color is black and his
favorite subject is
advisory. I asked him what he misses about
his last school and he said nothing. Nicholas
likes to play computer games in his spare
time and doesn't have a favorite movie. He”s
lived in the Philippines, Japan, Singapore,
and Bangkok.
Julia von Malorbe is in sixth grade
and has just moved to
AES from Lahore,
Pakistan. Julia thinks sofar this school is great
and cool. f he thing that
she misses most about
her last school are her
friends. Her favorite
colours are blue, green,
and white. Julia”s favorite subject is PE. and
she has lots of favorite movies. In her spare
time she likes to swim, be with friends,
tiangoiit, sleep. watch TV, and eat. She has
lived in three different countries besides here:
Sweden, Egypt, and Pakistan.
Macarena
Vlassoff is in
ei ghth grade and
has just moved
here from New
York, She has
lived in America,
Costa Rica, and
Chile. Her favorite colour is green and her
favorite subjects are art and science.
by Caitlin McCarthy
She thinks that this school is very big and nice.
but she misses her old class because it was
funny. In her spare time she likes to talk on the
phone and listen to music. Her favorite movie
is Scream.
Nadya Vlassoff is in sixth grade and
has also just moved here from New York.
She likes this school very much and thinks it”s
cool. The thing that
she misses most
about her last school
is her best friend Liz.
Her favorite colour is
blue and the subject
that she likes the
most is literature.
Nadya”s favorite
movie is Dumb and Dumber and she likes to
read in her spare time. Like her sister she has
lived in the US.. Canada, Chile, and Costa
Rica.
Mme Kostova is the new intermediate
French teacher replacing Mme Brown. She has
been a French and Spanish substitute at AES for
one year. She has lived in five places; India.
Bulgaria, Alge-
ria, Cuba, and
Spain. She's
married and her
husband works at
the Bulgarian
Embassy. Mme
Kostova also has
two children, one
boy who is
twelve and a girl nine. Both of them go to the
British School. In her spare time she likes to
read, and her favorite colours are red and blue.
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BIG! HUGE! ENORMOUS! WON-
DERFUL! These four words describe the school
perfectly. Classrooms are big, the building is
huge, the office is enormous, and the architecture
looks kind of like the auditorium. Several words
came to our rninds while we toured the school
with the help of Dr. Fochtman and Mrs.
Goldman. Mrs. Goldman's room is huge, and so
are the foreign language rooms. All the adminis-
tration and the library, which we share with the
high school, are on the bottom floor. The sixth
and some of the seventh grade lockers are on the
second, and the eighth and some of the seventh
are on the third floor. By February we will know
the definite date when we will move. We will all
enjoy it, GUARANTEED. Adam and I put
together a collage for your viewing pleasure. We
hope you ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mrs. Goldman`s NEW room
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Mr. Dow's luxurious terrace right outside his
office. We know where you`ll be going with
problems
The MS/HS Library
Dr. Fochtman's office. How often will you hc
there?
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N0llJ FOR soMgT;zauv,G CGMPLETLY“bIjfj]’E52ENT
Dear Daisyby Daisy
Before we publish any other letters addressed
to Daisy. we would like you to read this note from theauthor:
Attention Daisy fans! I know that you all
love me very much, but please don`t waste your time
and effort on telling exactly how much you love me.
As I said in my last article, I am a middle school
crisis consultant, and I specialize in solving problems
that you may have with relationships with other
people (specifically friendships, girlfriends. boy-
friends, and/or any other “love” affairs that you may
have, but not with teachers, sorry). And please don't
write me if you have academic problems. as that is
not my department (Captain Joey specializes in that,
but at the moment. we. ah, do not have any reliable
knowledge of his current location). So, thatjust
about wraps it up, and remember, Valentines Day is
coming up soon, and the next Scribblerk will be on
Valentine`s Day, so write to me if you`re having
trouble getting a date with someone for the
Valentines Dance or something.
Your middle school [relationship] crisis
consultant,
Daisy
Why was it so hard coming back to Delhi?by Marko Rapljan
A lot of people went out of Delhi
during winter vacation. Most of them went out of India
and some went out of Delhi. So, I asked few people
why was it so hard coming back to New Delhi.
Chris D. - It was cold.
Alex - I missed my friends.
Martin — Fog and delayed flights.
Arun — Fog.
Adi — Because its Delhi.
Jong-Sil - School.
Zach - Because of fog.
Tom- Because its so bad.
Alison- Fog and school.
Mieke— Homework.
Flash!by Rohan Beesla
Flash! Our arrival to the new building has
been delayed yet again. (not really a suprise)
Flash! The new PC’s have come. but when we will
put them to full effect is still at question.
Flash! Sarah and Trishla don`t write a single e-
mail duringjoumalism class!
Flash! David actually changes out of his torn up
black pants!
Flash! Bill Clinton could have been involved with
Monica Lewinsky.
Flash! The school screwed up again; we got a day
off on the wrong day.
Flash! Dr. Kevorkian is tried for putting another
useless, vegetable to sleep.
Flash! Caitlin gives Martin a run for his money.
Flash! Kirk claims to have seen a shark in the
drained swimming pool.
Flash! Rohan is suffering from writers` block so
this article is finished.
Vacation
by Joe Taylor
Whilst doing another hmmm .... .. interesting
Caught Ya, chances are you are thinking ‘bout
something else. Some ofus fine. young.
overachieving models for society iiiay be thinking
about the exiciting vacation we went on (though Idoubt it). Let's see. Using my magical povvers (it is
true, don't mock it) I shall guess where these
talented students went.
Simon Thomas- Dubai and Sri Lanka
Nimesh Modak- Turkmenistan
Adam Perchard- Westem Lithuania
Rohan Beesla-Boston
Eun Jong- NowhereKelsey Atwood- Nowhere
Victor Van Omen- Nowhere
Arush Seghal- My Castle in The Sky
Alison Jeanes- The North Pole
Mieke Windecker- Rajasthan
Anonymous- Juliet`s House
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--We know that all of you
have seen movies over the
holiday, and you”ve probablyseen these, so we decided to tell
you about the bits you weren”t supposed to
know. Enjoy!!!
WATERWORLD
There isn`t enough water in the icecaps to
submerge the Earth. Even if there were, the salt
water would be diluted enough to drink.
If the world is completely covered with
water, what happened to all of the fish? The only
form of life is that big fish-beast thing. Fish mass
Suicide?
If the Mariner is mutating into a sea
Creature and can breathe underwater, why does
he have that nifty diving bubble?
All of the bad guys smoke, hence
they are called Smokers. Dirt is
really hard to come by, so plants
are rare. Even if this is only thirty
` years in the future, how are they
growing the tobacco for all of' those cigarettes that the Smokers
w smoke?
At one point, the Mariner trades a
handful of dirt for water and a potted plant that
has more dirt in it than he Originally traded.
What an idiot.
Right before the Smokers show up, you
can see land on the left hand side of the screen. I
thought the world was covered in water!?!
When they leave the land where Anola
lived, they come upon a trader. The trader offers
him paper to trade for thirty minutes with the
woman. When his ship is destroyed and he
recovers his valuables, he finds some National
Geographic magazines. If he had so many
magazines, why did he want the few pieces of
paper?
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Movie Mistakes
by Tom McCarthy and Arush Sehgal
GOLDENEYE i
James Bond does his bungee jump down
a dam that looks like it's in the beginning of
spring. When he emerges from the factory on top
of the mountain, it is dead winter with no dam in
sight. A portable darn?
When James Bond and his female com-
panion are sliding down the giant radio dish
(Arecibo observatory), they slide. In real life,
they would have fallen through the dish. I guess
there are extraordinary radio dishes in Cuba.
TOMORROW NEVER DIES
The helicopter in the motorbike scene
does a strafing in a narrow roadThis is abso-
lutely impossible, as either some cloth would get
clogged into the main //,4,rotor, or the helicopter __/:— i
would hit somethingand break. But that " rdoesn't matter much, as
the helicopter is going too slowly to be tilted at
the angle it is tilted at.
TERMINATOR 2
When Arnie (my dear friend) gets
stabbed in the biker bar, if you put it in slow-nio.
you can see that the rubber knife bends.
When John and Arnold are at the pay-
phone Calling his mom, Arnie bashes the
phone and leaves a huge dent to getQM/Uhe change out. But even before he
'l .\\9 hits it, there is a dent in the phone.
_,%,,,,fi Action replays can tell a lot.
In the scene after T- lO()0 breaks
into the helicopter, you can see a third hand on
the control stick. Mutant terminator.
When Sarah breaks the doctor`s arm, shc
tells him that there are 215 bones in the human
body, when there are actually only 206. Mental
hospitals take their toll.
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Ask Adam
Greetings, friends, I am Abstruse Adam
the seventh son of a seventh son of an Italian
pasta maker! Cross my palm with
silver and I will foretell ...... .. Come
to think of it, I really can't be asked
to go through all this pointless
babbling for hours, so I’1l just
gather up all my mystic powers and
gaze deep into the future ........... ..
The mists of time twist and swirl, they
are beginning to clear. I see, I see, ahhhh, I see
Dr. Fochtman! There is a long, long journey
ahead of him and his family, l see a great goal
in our principal`s mind. They travel onwards,
laden with, with, with turnips, into darkest
Lithuania. The goal I spoke of before, I see it
now in twenty-one years time, our
headmaster will strive to accomplish the
honoured station of the world”s oldest
turnip farmer. For years he will devote
himsef to this worthy cause, working the
land without rest, and as a result of his dedica-
tion to turmips, a few hundred years later a root
vegetable worshipping religion will spring up
around the farm that he made. In time
this religion will strenghthen, until
everyone in the world will worship
turnips and world peace will prevail
under the shadow of the great, golden
turnip. I don't wish to look at this any more;
great spirits and stuff, show me other aspects of
the future.
How to tell the difference between an
English teacher and a glass of coke, mmmmm,
interesting, show me something else to do with
English teachers. No, that”s an old piece of
chewing gum... that's a roast potato. Listen you
lot of dead pansies, show me an English teacher
in the future, now!
God help us all, it”s Ms Abbott at forty-
nine years of age! I mean, um, aaaah, goodness
gracious isn't nice to see her, um, yes, yes
that”s right! She has given up teaching and
become an iguana? It’s true, she seems to be
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by Adam Perchard
living in the Ukraine continually on the run from
a tribe of maddened monks who have chased her
all the way from
Tibet where she was s i; åonce a holy creature ”Muntil, good God, she
ate one of the seven holy turnips of
Chibougama! Throughout northern Asia she will
run, after being randomly picked for experimen-
tation by the American government, a human
mind trapped in the body of a reptile, with no
visible way to escape. For a year and a day she
will reside in a monastery in splendour, until.
blind in her hunger, she will eat Umbakalulu. the
seventh holy turnip. Whether she will escape
from the body she will be imprisoned in I do not
know, but I sense great happiness later in her
future.
What's going on? I can hear strains of
Doctor Dolittle music. My vision is clearing, it`s
Ms. Renaud wearing. . . a top hat?! She seems to
be living in a small cave full of animals some-
where in Texas. Her close contact with eighth
graders is finally going to take its toll on our
favourite Social Studies teacher - she will walk
with the animals, talk with the animals, grunt
and, sorry, I”m getting carried away. She will
live exclusively on squirrel meatloaf, and she
will spend every night meditating and sheltering
traumatised iguanas. Maybe a lifetime spent with
Ms Renaud is the joy I have forseen for Ms
Abbott (alias iguana); on second thoughts,
maybe not. As an extra money spinner, she has
set up a tattoo salon in the forest
where she tattoos many small, gâ
cute, furry and defenseless ro- ,.
dents. I thought I’d seen every
wonder in the world la, la, la-la
traaaaaaa lla la la la da da da
daaaaaaaaa!
Oh God, I have just been singing songs
from Dr Dolittle. What sort of a person am I?
Fortune telling is definitely a dangerous activity.
Wait! I can see Rohan in the future, he”s, he”s,
eew, CENSORED!
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